Editorial

Staff · Issue 98, Sep/Oct 2017 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Retra Flash, Panasonic GH5

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com Hats off to Retra Alex Mustard’s thorough review of the new Retra Flash marks quite a milestone because it is the first new underwater strobe to come to the market for quite some time but I am going to have to digress already. You see, in the world of underwater photography and indeed the photographic world as a whole, a strobe is not a strobe but a flashgun. It’s called a flashgun because it... flashes. Strobes, on the other hand, have an effect named after them... stroboscopic because they emit multiple pulses of light in a timed sequence. Now I fully realise that pointing this out will make no difference whatsoever because the language has been incorrectly infiltrated and a flashgun has become a strobe but I feel better for making my point. Now where was I? Oh yes. The Retra Flash. I’d like to congratulate this comparatively small Slovenian co…